Re: No Mesozoic rainforests?

[Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>]

evelyn sobielski writes: 

> > Didn't they find a "rainforest" way up in Colorado
> > dated only about 1.4 million years after the K/T?
> > This suggests that rainforests were not confined to
> > the Equator during the earliest Paleogene. I can't
> > imagine things being wildly different in the
> > Cretaceous, or at least the Maastrichian.
>
> You have rainforest in British Columbia today. But
> that's an entirely different biome than what most
> people would think of on hearing the word
> "rainforest".

Indeed. We have temperate rainforests here in south eastern Australia, 
especially in Tasmania. They're a lot colder and damper than most people 
would expect of a 'typical' (ie. tropical) rainforest, with very different 
vegetation regimes. 

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Dann Pigdon
GIS / Archaeologist              http://geo_cities.com/dannsdinosaurs
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